A Good Johnny Depp Movie After A Long Time
Black
Mass, a crime, drama biopic directed by Scott Cooper, it represents the true
story of a 20th century infamous crime lord, James “Whitey” Bulger, who
also happens to be the brother of a state senator, and about his alliance with
the FBI to become an informant in order to bring down a mafia which is
affecting his business.
Now the
plot of this film isn’t that interesting, there is nothing really to hold on to
in the entire film, but it’s the performance of these actors which makes you
keep your eyes on the screen all the time.
James
“Whitey” Bulger portrayal by Johnny Depp is fantastic in this film, one of the
Johnny Depp’s best performance in the recent years, after Alice in Wonderland,
he kinda faded away after that movie for like five years or so; bad movie, one
after another, looks like he is finally back.
Joel
Edgerton is great as John Connolly, an FBI agent, he and James Bulger grew up
together, both are like a backbone to each other, and he has given some
excellent performance in this movie. He was great in Warrior, even in Exodus,
and in his directorial debut The Gift; he is one of the talented actors at
present.
Benedict
Cumberbatch as William “Billy” Bulger, senator brother of James Bulger; he is
really good with this amazing Boston accent; he doesn’t have much to do in the
film but his performance was really great, and the audience always have his
attention when he is on screen. He was the bold, top notch looking person in
the whole movie, after all he is a senator, he has to look like that and he
really nailed it.
Jesse
Plemons AKA Meth Damon; Todd from Breaking Bad is in this film as Kevin Weeks,
an associate, as a right hand man to the kingpin Whitey Bulger; he is good too.
He and Johnny Depp have some serious facial makeup throughout the movie.
Kevin Bacon, another FBI agent, boss of Joel Edgerton, he is really good. Dakota
Johnson is in this film, so is Peter Sarsgaard, and they are great, almost
every actors in this film are really good, so enough of the characters and
performance, let’s talk about the actual movie.
The movie
as a biopic is just absolutely amazing;
it has great cast, their performance is just crazy, great cinematography with
great beautiful wide shots, but the thing is you don’t feel anything toward
these characters, of course the acting, the performance is great, but you are
not emotionally attached to these people; you don’t route for them, you don’t
care, you don’t give a crap if they win or lose or die or whatever, you are
just watching to know about this FBI-Mafia-Kingpin thing as it’s a true story
and for the performance given by these actors; it’s not that it’s a negative
thing, it’s just there is nothing that could be done to make the audience feel
something about these people; it’s a biopic, if that’s how these people were,
if Whitey Bulger was an actual dick to everyone he knows, then we just have to
deal with it. If you try to add something off chart to this amazing biopic, to
make it more “Interesting”, then it won’t be a biopic anymore; it will just be
another bland crime drama thriller.
Another
issue with this film is that a person in it just right off disappears from the
film; the character is nowhere shown in the movie later, I won’t spoil who it
is, it’s just one of those tiny issue we happen to notice during the movie, you
don’t know what happened to that person, where that person went, nothing; it
just feels a little incomplete.
There is
also a slight problem with the pacing, even though the movie is a sub two hour
movie, it feels like it’s a very big one, I literally thought that the cinema
is gonna show an entire movie without the interval, and the ending kinda felt a
little bit rushed; a five or ten minutes more could have done the justice.
Now the
verdict; the movie is really good, a great one time watch, with great
performance and cinematography, along with a few issues here and there, which
doesn’t really bother you very much, and a great biopic. Watch this movie for
Johnny Depp’s comeback performance, as well as for the performance of the other
actors. I am gonna give Black Mass a 7
out of 10 star rating.
Watch
this film with your buddies, or just alone, all by yourself. Do not watch his
with your Parents or your partner, I just won’t recommend you to do that.
Thank You for Reading J
